Metallic tie and rail-fastener.



No. 843,351. PATENTED PEB. 5, 1907'.

' H. W. MULVBY.

METALLIC TIE AND RAIL FASTENLR.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG.14.19oe.

. -A UG? HUBERT W. I'IULVEY, OF GLASSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

METALLIC TIE AND RAIL-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 5, 1907.

Application filed August 14,1906. Serial No. 330,539.

Be it known that I, HUBERT WV. MULvin', a citizen of the United Statesof America, re-

it will take a .hrm grip in a ballasted roadbed and can be readilytamped or embedded therein. In connection with the tie I employ novelmeans to secure rails to the tie, whereby the rails cannot spread orbecome otherwise displaced.

Vith the above and other objects in view the invention consists in theconstruction, combination, and arrangement of parts, to be presentlydescribed in detail, and specifically pointed out in the appendedclaims.

Reference will now be had to the drawings forming part of thisspecification, wherein like numerals of reference designatecorresponding parts throughout the several views, in which- Figure 1 isa perspective view of my improved tie. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of arail-fastener. Fig. 3 is a similar view of a locking-key. Fig. 4 is afragmentary longitudinal sectional view of the tie. Fig. 5 is arcross-sectional view of the tie, and Fig. 6 is a perspective view of atop plate carried by the tie.

My improved tie consists of a channel-bar 1, having a curved or concavebottom 2 and sides 3. Suitably secured to the upper edges of the sides 3at the ends of the tie are plates 4, said plates having dependingpierced side ilanges 5, which I have illustrated as being secured to thesides 3 by rivets 6. The flanges 5 are cut away, as at 7 the object ofwhich will be hereinafter described.

The plates 4provide seats for rails 8, and t0 secure said rails upon theplates I secure clamps 9 to said plates by bolts and nuts 10, saidclamps engaging the outer base-flanges 11 of the rails and preventingsaid rails from spreading.

To secure the inner base-'flanges 12 of the rails 8 to the tie, Iprovide the plates 4 with countersunk recesses 14, having a bottom 15and side walls 16, said walls having oppositely-disposed slots 17 formedthereinl which aline with the cut-away portions 7 of plates 4 and slots18, formed in the sides of the tie 1. Rail-'fasteners 19 are placed inthe recesses 14, said `fasteners consisting of Z- shaped bars which restin the recesses 14, as at 20, and bear upon the inner base-'Hanges 12,as at 21. The fasteners 19 are retained in the recesses 14 by thetapering lockingkeys 22, which pass through the slots 1S, cutawayportions 7, and slots 17 of the tie and bear upon the fasteners withinthe recesses 14. The smaller protruding ends of the keys 2,2 areprovided with cotter-pins 23 to retain said keys in the tie 1.

It is apparent from the foregoing description that I have devised asimple and durable tie and positive means for fastening rails to thetie.

It is obvious that such changes in the details of construction as arepermissible by the app-ended claims may be resorted to without departingfrom the spirit and scope of the invention.

l/Vhat I claim, and desire-to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a metallic tie and rail-fastener, the combination with rails, of achannel-bar having a concave bottom, plates carried by said bar andsupporting said rails, clamps secured to said plates and engaging theouter sides of said rails, said plates having countersunk recessesformed therein, Z-shaped fasteners mounted in said recesses and engagingthe inner sides of said rails, tapering keys passing through said tieand bearing upon said fasteners within said recesses, and means to locksaid keys in said tie, substantially as described.

2. In a metallic railroad-tie, the combination with a sheet-metal tiecomprising a bottom and side wall, of plates itted in the tie at theends thereof and secured to said side walls, rail-clamps secured to saidplates,

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and side flanges, of llanged plates ttecl Withkeys passed through saidregistering openlo in the tie et the ends thereof, each plate havl ingsfor securing said Z-shaped rail-fasteners ing a depression With notchesin the flanges Within the depressions of said plates.

of the plates and with apertures in the side l In testimony whereof IafIiX my signature Walls of the tie, rail-clamps xecl to said in thepresence of tWo Witnesses.

plates to engage the outer base-ilange of a HUBERT W. MULVEY. rail,substantially Z-shapecl rail-fasteners l Witnesses:

seated in the depressions of said plates to en- G. l/V. COURsIN,

gage the inner base-flange of said rail, and Wu. F. BARBETTA.

